{"id":1507,"date":"2024-02-18T15:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T09:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:35:59","slug":"q-in-india-cluster-bean-guar-is-traditionally-used-as-a-vegetable-or-animal-feed-but-recently-the-cultivation-of-this-has-assumed-significance-which-one-of-the-following-statements-is-corre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-in-india-cluster-bean-guar-is-traditionally-used-as-a-vegetable-or-animal-feed-but-recently-the-cultivation-of-this-has-assumed-significance-which-one-of-the-following-statements-is-corre","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0In India, cluster bean (Guar) is traditionally used as a vegetable or animal feed, but recently the cultivation of this has assumed significance. Which one of the following statements is correct in this context?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>The oil extracted from seeds is used in the manufacture of biodegradable plastics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The gum made from its seeds is used in the extraction of shale gas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The leaf extract of this plant has the properties of anti-histamines<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a source of high quality biodiesel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(b) The gum made from its seeds is used in the extraction of shale gas<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cluster-bean-guar\"><strong>Cluster bean (Guar)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cluster bean (Guar) is&nbsp;<strong>native to India<\/strong>&nbsp;and is widely grown in dry, warm, and arid regions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The guar or cluster bean is an&nbsp;<strong>annual legume<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>source of Guar gum<\/strong>. Guar gum is derived from guar seeds, a legume crop that grows in semi-arid regions of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The gum made from its seeds is used in the extraction of shale gas<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guar gum is used&nbsp;as a stabilizing, thickening and suspending agent in&nbsp;drilling fluids.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is traditionally used as a&nbsp;<strong>vegetable or animal feed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This legume is a valuable plant in a&nbsp;<strong>crop rotation cycle<\/strong>, as&nbsp;<strong>it lives in symbiosis with<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>nitrogen-fixing bacteria.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India is the world\u2019s largest producer of guar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Guar.jpg\" alt=\"Guar\" class=\"wp-image-47913\" style=\"width:703px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(b) The gum made from its seeds is used in the extraction of shale gas Cluster bean (Guar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[44],"years":[59],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-science-and-tech","years-59"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":44,"label":"Science and Tech"}],"years":[{"value":59,"label":"2014"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Science and Tech","slug":"science-and-tech","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}